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Hirschman, Jack A., 1933-2021

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Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Black Alephs: Poems 1960-1968, 1969

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Identifier: CC-36628-38439
Scope and Contents This book was designed by Asa Benveniste. There are three black and white photographic reproductions of Verifax images done by Wallace Berman included in this book. This deluxe edition was printed on Abbet Mills antique laid paper and specially bound without a dust jacket. San Francisco Call published this article about Hirschman, Monday, May 24, 2002, CHOROSHO!, An Auto/Biographical Sketch of Jack Hirschman - By Jack Hirschman & Matt Gonzalez: Born in the Bronx, New York City, December 13, 1933. Son of Stephen Dannemark Hirschman and Nellie (Keller) Hirschman. Stephen Hirschman is an insurance agent and Nellie Hirschman works as a secretary. The couple has a second child, Cynthia, born February 4, 1936. Attends James Monroe and DeWitt Clinton High Schools, in the Bronx. Graduates from Clinton H.S., 1951. Works as a reporter, at age 15, for two weekly newspapers: The Bronx Times and The Bronx Press-Review. While Hirschman is there, The Bronx Times is shut down by the Kefauver...
Dates: 1969

Black Alephs: Poems 1960-1968, 1969

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Identifier: CC-36629-38440
Scope and Contents

This book was designed by Asa Benveniste. There are three black and white photographic reproductions of Verifax images done by Wallace Berman who also designed the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Black Alephs: Poems 1960-1968, 1969

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Identifier: CC-36639-38450
Scope and Contents

This book was designed by Asa Benveniste. There are three black and white photographic reproductions of Verifax images done by Wallace Berman included in this book who also designed the dust jacket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Four Angels in Profile, Four Beasts in Full Face, 1976

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-36615-38423
Scope and Contents

The poems by Kohav were translated by Hirschman. The covers were drawn by Tom Loretta and the figurative line drawings within the book by Tom Loretta and S. Kaner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Four Angels in Profile, Four Beasts in Full Face, 1976

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-36616-38424
Scope and Contents

The poems by Kohav were translated by Hirschman. The covers were drawn by Tom Loretta and the figurative line drawings within the book by Tom Loretta and S. Kaner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Front Lines, 2002

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Identifier: CC-41945-43941
Scope and Contents

Also designated Pocket Poets Series No.55. Agnetta Falk contributed a calligraphic visual portrait rendering of Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Igitur by Stephane Mallarme, 1974

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Identifier: CC-32889-34504
Scope and Contents

The black and white photograph by Wallace Berman on the cover depicts a frontal view of a man or mannikin with the face completely obscured by smoke. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Songs and Poems / Glick, Hirsh ; Jack A. Hirschman, translator ; Zachary Baker, translator., 2010

 Item — Box 482: [Barcode: 31858072462421]
Identifier: CC-51610-72709
Scope and Contents

Jack Hirschman contriburtes an introductory essay describing Glik's poems and songs as personifying the creed of Partisans against Nazism particularly in Vilna , Lithuania. "When the news of the Waqrsaw Ghetto uprising reached the Vilna ghetto, it inspired Hirsh to write his famous song-poem "Zog Nit Keynmor (Don't Ever Say)"... In a short time and with amazing speed, Hirsh Glik's song became the anthem of the Resistance: It swept through the ghettos and camps and became known as "the Song of the Partisans." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

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